On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:40, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 13:53, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:51, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The PEP received mostly positive feedback. The only undecided point is >>> where to specify that the package is provisional. Currently the PEP >>> mandates to specify it in the documentation and in the docstring. >>> Other suggestions were to put it in the code, either as a >>> __provisional__ attribute on the module, or collect all such modules >>> in a single sys.provisional list. >> >> I'm not sure what the usecase is for checking in code if a module is >> provisional or not. It doesn't seem useful, and risks being >> unmaintained, especially when the flag is on the module itself. >> > > Some usecases were given by Jim J. Jewett here: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116400.html > (and +1-ed by a couple of others.)
Having a list of provisional modules seems the most helpful there, in that case, and also noting that it is provisional in the module docs shown when you do help(). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
